This notebook is to show how to work with teets to get top referenced users, most retweeted tweets, etc.

import json
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
import itertools
import collections
import tweepy as tw

tweets_file = 'data/ethiopia_4e3.json'

tweets_data = []
tweets_file = open(tweets_file, "r")
for line in tweets_file:
    try:
        tweet = json.loads(line)
        tweets_data.append(tweet)
    except:
        continue

import re
def get_hashtags(text):
    return re.findall(r'\B#\w*[a-zA-Z]+\w*', text)
hashtags=[]
for tweet in range(0,len(tweets_data)):
    try:
        hashtags.extend(get_hashtags(tweets_data[tweet]['text']))
        hashtags.extend(get_hashtags(tweets_data[tweet]['retweeted_status']['text']))
    except:
        pass
counts_no_hashtags = collections.Counter(hashtags)
print(counts_no_hashtags.most_common(5))
top_hashtags = pd.DataFrame(counts_no_hashtags.most_common(5),columns=['hashtags', 'count'])
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 8))
top_hashtags.sort_values(by='count').plot.barh(x='hashtags',
                      y='count',
                      ax=ax,
                      color="pink")

ax.set_title("Top 5 hashtags",fontsize=15, fontweight='bold')

plt.show()

[('#TrumpIsALiar', 161), ('#Trump', 128), ('#ImpeachTrump', 101), ('#MAGA', 68), ('#TheResistance', 54)]

all_user_in_tweet=[]
for tweet in range(0,len(tweets_data)):
    try:
        all_user_in_tweet.append(tweets_data[tweet]['user']['name'])
    except KeyError:
        pass
counts_no_users = collections.Counter(all_user_in_tweet)
print(counts_no_users.most_common(5))

top_referenced_users = pd.DataFrame(counts_no_users.most_common(5),columns=['users', 'count'])
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 8))
top_referenced_users.sort_values(by='count').plot.barh(x='users',
                      y='count',
                      ax=ax,
                      color="purple")

ax.set_title("Top 5 referenced users",fontsize=15, fontweight='bold')

plt.show()

[('Deplorable David', 10), ('Karen simpson', 10), ('✨ tufts family ✨', 8), ('Barbara Mc', 8), ('BBrom', 8)]

retweeted_tweets=[]
for tweet in range(0,len(tweets_data)):
    try:
        retweeted_tweets.append(tweets_data[tweet]['retweeted_status']['id'])
    except KeyError:
        pass
most_retweeted_tweets = collections.Counter(retweeted_tweets)
print(most_retweeted_tweets.most_common(5))

most_retweeted_tweets = pd.DataFrame(most_retweeted_tweets.most_common(5),columns=['tweet_id', 'count'])
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 8))
most_retweeted_tweets.sort_values(by='count').plot.barh(x='tweet_id',
                      y='count',
                      ax=ax,
                      color="blue")

ax.set_title("Top 5 retweeted tweets",fontsize=15, fontweight='bold')

plt.show()

[(886631382231003136, 39), (886631577098256384, 38), (886563930147098624, 34), (886632534968283138, 28), (886622966250950656, 25)]